Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings.

In fact, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Lincoln is said to have commented, “So you’re the little lady whose book started the Civil War.” First published on March 20, 1852, the story focuses on the tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave, the central character around whose life the other characters-both fellow slaves and slave owners-revolve. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s view of slavery. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. Stowe continued to write throughout her life and died in 1896.Download cover art Download CD case insert Uncle Tom's CabinĪmong the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. In 1863, when Lincoln announced the end of slavery, she danced in the streets.

Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, she became one of the original contributors to The Atlantic, which launched in November 1857. She traveled to England in 1853, where she was welcomed as a literary hero. The book established Stowe’s reputation as a woman of letters. The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. She published her first book, Mayflower, in 1843. In 1836, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, with whom she had seven children. She accompanied him and continued to teach while writing stories and essays. She studied at private schools in Connecticut, then taught in Hartford from 1827 until her father moved to Cincinnati in 1832. Stowe was born in 1811, the seventh child of the famous Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe